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Unix fathers - Dennis M Ritchie (dmr) and Ken Thompson (ken) talking about Unix
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The world has lost dmr (Dennis M Ricthie) on October 12, 2011.
dmr, we will never forget you, you made this world better, put roads for people like us .... no words can explain your contributions to computer engineering/science... and simple man and good friend... RIP

NPR coverage:
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2011/10/20111013_atc_08.mp3

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/technology/dennis-ritchie-programming-trail...

From bwk: Brian Kernighan (K of the K&R):
Thu Oct 13 14:21:28 EDT 2011
Sadly, Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix, died last weekend. You can get a sense of his contributions to computing by reading one of the many stories now appearing.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall11/cos109/



Washington post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dennis-ritchie-founder-of-unix...

The Guardian:
Dennis Ritchie: the other man inside your iPhone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/16/john-naughton-dennis-ritchie...

Harvard Crimson:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/17/dennis-ritchie-c-programming/

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  • RIP

    You'll be forever in our kernels.

    #include stdio.h

    void main()

    { while(1) printf("Thanks Dennis\n");

    }

  • @pdp7pdp7

    His pointer has been casted to void

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  • rest in peace dennis ritchie

  • RIP Dennis

  • DMR, Giant, RIP.

  • Thank you 101010101101010101010101010101­010101010110101010101010101010­1010101011010100101010101 times !

  • R.I.P DMR - Thank you very much for everything !

  • R.I.P Dennis

  • At 0:50 there's Doug McIlroy in the foreground; who is the chap sitting in the background to his right?

  • salute and mourning to Dennis...

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